Just a heads up that all those back orders of Cassette Tape Magazine have now been shipped. You should be getting yours with the quickness. We’re down to the last box of these things now so if you want one click the banner at the top of this page. Oh, and thx.

Team Evil: where half assed ‘blogging’ meets half assed distrbution.

“Our music is mentally hip hop smoothed out on the r&b tip with a pop appeal to it.” Bel Biv Devoe – Poison

Yeah, I did it. Wrote a guide to New Jack Swing for Lifelounge. You can read it / watch the videos here. Meanwhile, here are some additional clips that didn’t make the cut.

“It’s poison / don’t be cruel, it’s my prerogative / To do what I gotta do, have a little sensitivity / Do me, baby, I wanna get rubbed the right way So what you gotta say / Oh, no, she’s a candy girl livin’ in a half-crazy world / That’s the way I’m livin’, girl / Now every little step I take is another NE heartbreak.” Bel Biv Devoe – Word to the Mutha

When not posting relevant videos on this website or “purchasing real estate tapes” I write a gossip column for Lifelounge. You should read it. It’s hella good. I’m really talented. True story.

Point is, no one gets more mentions in the column than Kim Kardashain. She’s all up in the news every week. Probably because, (a) I love her, (be) she gets web hits. On that note, here’s a selection of Kim K images saved on my hard drive for gosip blog purposes. Because Team Evil needs your web hits, mang.

Yeah, yeah, we’re jumping on Odd Future’s dizzick. Here’s a couple of videos courtesy of their Tumblr.

I recently put together an article on Neo Geo (the old videogame system) for Hyper magazne. It should be out in a month or so. Anyway, while doing ‘research’, I stumbled across this 1991 TV spot for Art of Fighting. They need to start advertising games like this again…

So a friend just sent me this Yacht Rock mix he made. It’s entirely brilliant. Just the thing to accompany some jazz cigarettes and scotch on a Tuesday night (if you’re into that sort of thing). Thing is, I know all these songs from my childhood – and I’m not that old.

According to Wikipedia, “yacht rock refers to the highly polished brand of soft rock that emanated from Southern California between 1976 and 1984. The term is meant to suggest the kind of smooth, mellow music that early yuppies likely enjoyed while sipping champagne and snorting cocaine on their yachts.”

I wasn’t even born when yacht rock was ‘a thing’, but I remember all this stuff getting played in my house. Which leads me to suspect my (ex hippy) parents were secretly into Yacht Rock…

PS. Because we’re technically handicapped, you’re going to have to listen to this mix on it’s own page. Just click below and wait for us to catch up with 2011.

Ladies Smalls – Highball to the Helm mix

Big thanks to Patrick Collins over at www.lifeatthebottom.com for this.

UPDATE: Seems that people FREAK OUT if they don’t have a tracklist. Here it is. Everyone be cool, okay?

The Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes / Robbie Dupree – Steal Away / Kenny Loggins – This Is It / Steely Dan – Peg / Gerry Rafferty – Right Down The Line / Nicolette Larson – Lotta Love / Little River Band – Reminiscing / Ace – How Long / Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

I totally meant to put together some proper blog posts this weekend. Then I got distracted by partying and bullshit. Then it was Sunday and I realised I had to write 4 articles / reviews for various magazines and submit them. Oppps. So yeah, instead, here are some random images. We can pretend like this is a Tumblr or something.

Pretty much what the title says. And hello to anyone who made it here via the [unbelievably NSFW] Fuck 1 GP post over on Street Carnage.

Someone has been nice enough to splice together footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey with a Detroit techno classic, The Passage. It’s Stanley Kubrick vs Juan Atkins at #ThingsWeActuallyLike. Also, #Nerds, #SciFi and #WhatMeWorry…

Meanwhile, really need to watch the movie again.

Cut Copy’s new album arrived in the mail today. Listening to it for the first time right now. Let’s make a review!

Okay, first things first. The opening is terrible. Need You Know and Take Me Over are a whole lot of nothing. Super ‘meh’. Thankfully, it gets better. Pharaohs & Pyramids builds up into a huge 80s pop anthem (complete with New Order bass bit), Strange Nostalgia for the Future is stoner sci-fi and Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat is Cut Copy at their miserable best. Soooo, let’s say a generous 8/10, 4/5, 80%, two thumbs up, etc.